Speaker Series
"Jacksonville Speaks," the theme of the 2011-12 MacMurray College Speaker Series, will serve to give voice to local residents on topics ranging from the 1960s to Saudi Arabia to community leadership. These events are free of charge, and the general public is welcome to attend.
Interpreting services are available and should be requested 72 hours prior to an event. Contact Disability Support Services at dss@mac.edu or call 217-479-7123.
For further information about each event, contact the MacMurray College Public Relations Office at publicrelations@mac.edu or call 217-479-7027.
All events at Thoresen Recital Hall, Putnam/Springer Center.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 7 p.m.The Evolution of Blues into Jazz The Rob Killam Trio, West Central Illinois’ premier jazz group, will demonstrate through selections of music and commentary the development of a truly American art form. Flyer |
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 7 p.m.A Hearing-Deaf Connection: Music in the church? Straight talk for hearing people Katherine “Kitty” Aubry, who teaches in MacMurray’s Interpreter Training Program, will discuss the cultural similarities and differences in the deaf community, including the role - or not - of music. If you haven’t experienced the beauty and grace of “visual music,” don’t miss this chance. Flyer |
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 7 p.m.The Improbable Life of Vaclav Havel Dick Nelson, a longtime, highly respected world history teacher at Jacksonville High School, will recount the uplifting story of how the Nobel poet Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia out of Soviet oppression and became the president of his country. |
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 7 p.m.Bodies, Populations, Race: thinking through global health with biopolitics Ari Samsky, a cultural anthropologist with the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa, will explore how the designation by governments of categories of people at risk for disease or poverty play out in the interaction between political power and human biology. |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 7 p.m.My Life in Eighteen Poems In the final semester of his 30 years of teaching at MacMurray, Robert Seufert, professor of English, who has been writing poetry for 50 years, will read and comment on 18 poems he has selected to illustrate the changes and stages in his life. |
